2018 governor’s race
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | What Polis’ record in office reveals about the governor-elect
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Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published Dec. 15. Early on the night of Colorado’s June primary election, the congratulations started pouring in for Jared Polis, the five-term congressman who bested three fellow Democrats on his way to winning…
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | Inside the Polis campaign
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Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published Aug. 24, during Jared Polis’ campaign for governor. If Democrat Jared Polis’ campaign for governor has a mantra – and you can bet the five-term congressman from Boulder’s operation has a mantra…
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COVER STORY | What Polis’ record in office reveals about the governor-elect
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Early on the night of Colorado’s June primary election, the congratulations started pouring in for Jared Polis, the five-term congressman who bested three fellow Democrats on his way to winning the open governor’s seat four months later by a wide margin. Among the cheers from environmentalists, gun-control advocates and LGBTQ-rights groups was a back-slap from…
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INSIGHTS | The road ahead for GOP depends on Democrats
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Colorado Republicans wore gloom like a cheap suit on Election Night. Jeff Hays, the ever-positive state GOP chairman, went to the stage for what was supposed to be a victory party at the Marriott in Lone Tree, and told fellow Republicans he wouldn’t try to “put lipstick on a pig.” The news was bad and…
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Winners and losers in Colorado’s 2018 election
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Elections are decisions, and Colorado voters clearly favored some over others this year. Here’s Colorado Politics’ take on who came out on top in the Colorado midterms. WINNERS Democrats The blue wave was a bit choppy nationally. Democrats captured the U.S. House and gained several governorships, while Republicans held onto the U.S. Senate. But in…
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Polis registers internet domain name for president
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Don’t believe what you read on the internet. That’s the message out of the gubernatorial campaign for Jared Polis, after Colorado Politics asked Thursday why one of his companies, Jovian Holdings, registered the domain name JaredPolisforPresident.com. “It’s a smart strategy to register all the domain names you can to keep them from trolls,” said the…
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Polis’ mom takes post-election shot at Stapleton
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Gov-elect Jared Polis kept his family out of his campaign, for the most part, but his mom made her feelings about Walker Stapleton known on social media Wednesday night. About 24 hours after her son was declared the winner, his mom, Susan Polis Schutz, had something to say to the Republican nominee. And she said…
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Takeaways from Colorado Election Day 2018
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Here’s what jumped out to Colorado Politics about what voters decided in the midterm election. Big dreams win When Colorado’s last Republican governor was first elected in 1998, Bill Owens spoke of specific projects with specific plans to pay for them. That worked then, but this year fellow Republican Walker Stapleton, the self-described “numbers guy”…
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INSIGHTS | Overheated politics baked this election
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Politics is always rough business, but this year, “anything goes” has left its mark on Colorado. And in two years – or, more realistically, the morning after this year’s election – we’ll do all over again. The rough politics of this election is like marking the height of a child on the door, except this…
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Homestretch: Stapleton reminding voters of his values
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Walker Stapleton was juggling his race for governor with planning Halloween trick-or-treating for his three kids Wednesday morning. He joked that he might dress up as liberal U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and his son, Craig, could go as Democratic gubernatorial opponent Jared Polis. “A father-son type deal,” he said with the big laugh of a…
